THE INFANT LEAPED IN HER WOMB

Soph 3.14-18a opp. Rm 12,9-16b; C Is 12,2-6; Lk 1,39-56
31 MAY
The Virgin is not only the Mother of the Church, she is also the image and figure of her. The Church must let herself be made holy and immaculate every day by her Spouse. She must let herself to always be washed and purified with the blood of Jesus. In holiness she must conceive Christ in her bosom every day and every day make him be born to make a gift of him to God, so that God can give him to the world as its salvation and redemption, justification and peace, life, truth and way. She will do this if she will let the Holy Spirit always to flood her with the power and riches of his communion through which all of the Father and Son are brought into her heart.

Like Mary, the Church, full of Christ, of the Father and of the Holy Spirit, must go to the house of the world and breathe in it the Holy Spirit as the true Spirit of prophecy, truth, light, because only with his wisdom and intelligence in the mind and in the hearts of men it will be possible to know her mystery, in which every other mystery of salvation, of redemption, of past, present and future history is. If the Church does not breathe the Holy Spirit into the home of the world, because she has not let herself be washed by the blood of Christ; she has not conceived Christ in her womb and she is not even filled with the Spirit of the Lord, her presence in history is vain. She will speak from sin, she will breathe the spirit of sin, falsehood, lie, deceit and will darken the minds; she will not generate in them any light, because only the Spirit of the Lord is the one that produces light in the hearts.

During those days Mary set out and travelled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”

And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my saviour. For he has looked upon his handmaid’s lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.” Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home.

The Church must not only breathe in the house of the world the Holy Spirit on every man, if she wants the world to know what her true mystery is and sing it, if she wants the child that the world carries in its womb, be sanctified and to leap, she must always be the one to sing the greatness of her God in the purest truth. When the children of the Church do not breathe the Holy Spirit in the house of the world, it is a sign that they are deprived of him. If they are deprived of him, they might never magnify the Lord for his omnipotence of salvation and redemption. Everything in the Church is the fruit of the Holy Spirit. Without the Spirit breathed by her the world remains eternally world and she offers a false image of the true God.

Today, if the children of the Church offer the world a false image of their God, if they no longer breathe in the house of the earth the Spirit of the Lord, it is a sign that they are deprived of Him. Without the Spirit, the Church is for the world similar to an old next door neighbour that turns from houses to houses, but only to gossip, criticize, murmur, judge, condemn and complain about everybody and everything. Either the children of the Church will let themselves be washed every day in the blood of Christ, be filled with the Holy Spirit, generate Christ in their womb, or it remains for them to live a history of sinful next door gossiping concerning humanity. Is not it next door gossiping to complain about the sin of the world when it is up to the Church to take it away?

Virgin Mary, Mother of the Redemption, Angels, Saints, make us saints for our God.